By Joshua BaroneCorinna da Fonseca-WollheimSeth Colter WallsZachary Woolfe and Oussama Zahr The New York Times’s classical music and opera critics see and hear much more than they review.

A fortuitous delay in the premiere in Copenhagen of the Symphony No. 1 by Danish composer Niels Gade caused the manuscript to be sent to Felix Mendelssohn in Leipzig where he was director of the ...

Spring can be the slow time in classical music, that part of the year when the major orchestras and opera companies are winding down — and just before the big, outdoor summer season starts up.

I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music ... to play all the right notes or else. If we understand that writing, in music as in language ...

Apple Music Classical gets Listening Guides, Personalized Recommendations and Editorial Playlists These updates are app-only, and not for the web browser Apple Music Classical remains free for all ...

After expanding to CarPlay a few months ago, Apple Music Classical has ... booklets featuring in-depth liner notes, translations, plus the only global classical music chart and more, make Apple ...

Rishab Rikhiram Sharma, the last disciple of the legendary Pandit Ravi Shankar, will perform a multi-city classical music tour in India between April and May. It's that time of the year when ...

“I grew up knowing this music and began studying the santure (an Iraqi hammered dulcimer) and the doumbek (a large hand drum) when I was 9 and started performing in my teens. I also am a ...

Scientists have used brainwave measurements and neuroimaging techniques to show that classical music has positive effects on the brain. Ask any classical music lover and they will tell you that ...

Apple Music Classical is now curating a top 100 chart compiled weekly from listening figures across more than 165 countries. It's sixteen months since Apple launched the Apple Music Classical app ...